The First Year of COSMO User Support new scientific users during the annual "COSMO User Training" in February in Langen, Germany Training new operational COSMO model users during the

The First Year of COSMO User Support

Cosmin BARBU, Rodica DUMITRACHE, Amalia IRIZA, Bogdan MACOAlexander SMALLA

National Meteorological Administration of RomaniaDeutscher Wetterdienst

COSMO General Meeting, Lugano, 10 – 14 September 2012COSMO General Meeting, Lugano, 10 – 14 September 2012

Outline:

Motivation

Main issues

Supported countries & status

Conclusions

Priority Task – “Support of COSMO licenses”Motivation:• by the end of 2012, the GRIB2 standard will be implemented in the COSMO software• DWD will not invest in the adaptation of the HRM code to this standard• due to this fact, DWD will end the support for the HRM model and expects the migration of about 25operational HRM users to the COSMO model• by the end of 2013/beginning of 2014 GME will be replaced by ICON!Please, note the email below to the HRM users!!


03/2011 Beginning of migration from HRM to COSMO

Supporting Users in migrating to COSMO and in runningCOSMO

01/2012 Currently 20 countries are using COSMO

Will be 23 countries by the end of 2013

6 countries are migrating at the moment

6 countries need to be moved into the migration process

01/2013 THE GOAL: All former HRM countries should be migrated toCOSMO

Support for HRM expires

Migration HRM to COSMO

Map of model distribution until 2012

Map of model distribution beyond 2013

Scientific usage: Freely available to universities, research institutesand national weather services.

Operational numerical weather prediction for non-COSMOmembers:Free for weather services in developing countries as well as forresearch institutions;otherwise: Annual fee of 20.000 €;Payed licenses: Brazil (INMET), Brazil(NAVY), Catalunya (SMC),Oman (DGMAN), United Arab Emirates (NCMS), Namibia (willstart from 06/2013), Turkmenistan (will start from 06/2013), SouthAfrica(2013), Qatar(2013), Malaysia(2013)

COSMO Licenses

HRM users map:

Priority Task – “Support of COSMO licenses”


Starting from September 2011, NMA Romania has been involved in the COSMO User Support Activities

priority task:

- supporting new COSMO users during the implementation phase through e-mail assistance and by

remote access to their computer system;

- helping the COSMO users to set up their operational COSMO applications;

- further activities to facilitate installation and use of the COSMO - Model and the INT2LM software.

As part of these activities, Romania offered support for sequential compiling without data assimilation of the

model

Requirements:

- Fortran compiler: gfortran (vs. > 4.5); C compiler: gcc

- DWD-libgrib1_110128.tar.gz

- int2lm_110311_1.18.tar.gz & cosmo_110525_4.18.tar.gz

Main issues of the sub-task:



Training new scientific users during the annual "COSMO User Training" in February in Langen, Germany

Training new operational COSMO model users during the annual "Capacity Building in Regional Modelling“

- two of the Romanian researchers, Mrs. Rodica Dumitrache and Mr. Cosmin Barbu attended the Capacity

Building in Regional Modelling in Langen, between 16th - 27th July 2012, as trainers;

- assisting the students in implementing the COSMO model on their personal computers and running test

cases for domains which covered their area of interest.

Training support:



Creating a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page for COSMO model installation issues

Web support:



E-mail support: [email protected]

Supported countries:





COUNTRY PROBLEMS / STATUS

Armenia Problemsgme2hrmV2.8 installation errorwrong bitmap file and domain settingshrm compiling errorStatus: Pending

Botswana Problemswrong or no INPUT filesremoving YU* fileswrong values for namelist parametersStatus: Successful implementation of the model.

Egypt Problemsdomain for Egypt exceeded limitswrong invar* filewrong bitmap filenamelist parameters settingsStatus: Successful implementation of the model.

IBL (Slovakia) Problemswhere to get the binaries for the modelproducing WETTER_WW fieldcompiling with Intel compilersStatus: Alex / Uli took over the task.

India Problemsint2lm compiling errorint2lm run error (namelist parameters set incorrectly)COSMO model run error (namelist parameters set incorrectly)Status: Successful implementation of the model.



Iran Problemsint2lm run error (namelist parameters set incorrectly)COSMO model run error (namelist parameters set incorrectly)explanations regarding the INPUT filesStatus: Successful implementation of the model.

Irak Problems Linux version required to run the HRM and COSMO modelsStatus: -

Jordan ProblemsCOSMO model run error (namelist parameters set incorrectly)Status: Successful implementation of the model.

Kenya Problemscompiling error (using an unavailable compiler, compiling without the requiredlibraries)compiling without the “-DNETCDF” optionStatus: Pending

Pakistan

OBS: compiling with ifort

Problems- compiling with ifort

gfortran installation problemscompiling using gfortran (version older than 4.5)using libraries which were not compiled with the same compiler as the modelStatus: Pending



Philippines Problemsint2lm compiling error (using an unavailable compiler)COSMO model compiling errorStatus: Pending (unknown – they haven't answered back to our lastemail).

Rwanda Problemsusing the GME-20km test datahow to compile int2lmremoving YU* filespreparing INPUT files (namelist parameter values and paths setincorrectly)using COSMO with a new set of datesStatus: Successful implementation of the model.

South Africa Problemscompiling the COSMO model (errors and necessary libraries, warnings)using the invar* filepreparing the INPUT filesexporting necessary librariesremoving YU*because of the big size of the domain, suggestion of running the modelfor a smaller domainidentifying output directoriessuggestions regarding the use of gradsStatus: Successful implementation of the model.



Tanzania Problemsremoving YU* filesexporting library pathssetting namelist parameters correctlyinterpolation to be done for exactly the same period of time as the onefor running the model (ex: if the model is run for 6 hours, run theinterpolation for 6 hours)Status: Successful implementation of the model.

United Arab Emirates Problemsconvert grib data to Vis5D ( not available directly from the COSMOmodel)COSMO model run errorStatus: Alex / Uli took over the task.

Ukraine Problemsproblems with parallel running of the modelStatus: Alex / Uli took over the task.

Ethiopia Status: On-going

Examples of COSMO domains:



Conclusions:



The COSMO model has been successfully implemented in most countries which migrated from the HRM

model;

The training activities help potential users to get better acquainted with the COSMO model;

All these activities can improve the communication between the COSMO consortium and the users of the

model;

Romania will be able to go on providing support in implementing the COSMO model to new users in 2012 –

2013 and participate with permanent activity in the “SuPpoRT Activities” priority task.

Thank you for your attention!


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